That gnome. You found him for 50 cents at a garage sale, and it was love the moment your eyes met his eerie-yet-impish gaze. You selected the ideal spot for him, just to the right of your front steps, where he could greet visitors and let everyone in the neighborhood know of your good fortune and even better taste in lawn decor.

And he paired perfectly with that cutout of the large woman with the generous thighs bending over to do some gardening of her own in her polka-dot bloomers. Accent all of this with some white Christmas lights, sparkling in your yard all summer like fireflies, and you've created your own Eden.

Turns out one person's landscape treasure may be tacky torment to their neighbor, or so you'd think from the results of a reader poll on lawn decorations taken at the Times Union's lifestyle blog On the Edge (http://blog.timesunion.com/kristi). We asked which kinds of lawn ornamentation readers find pleasing to the eye. Here are the results -- drawn from about 100 votes cast in each category -- as well as some of the voter comments.